By any means, 'Shade' is an impressive achievement that few bands 30 years into their career can ever hope to achieve. It may not replace their classic releases, but it absolutely belongs right next to them.

The economic divide exploded into the sunlight with the ascendance of the Tea Party movement, identified more or less with the right wing, and the Occupy movement on the left. The difference between those two phenomena was more cultural than philosophical.

If the party system isn't destroyed, and if our citizenry is not given the right to look outside of the far right and the far left to fill the most powerful positions in our government, our entire society is endangered.